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Today, advocate Mikhail Benyash has succeeded in seeking a penalty of 100,000 roubles to be imposed on the federal treasury for his two-week administrative arrest after a rally in Krasnodar.

During the week of April 15-21, 2019, no victims to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Ingushetia, Chechnya, the Krasnodar Territory, and Dagestan are included in the top twenty in terms of population in the list of regions of Russia compiled by the RIA "Rating". Meanwhile, Ingushetia and Chechnya are ranked the second and third in the rating, respectively.

There are no threats to the lives of the policemen hospitalized after clashes with opponents of the construction of a hydroelectric power plant (HPP) in the Pankisi Gorge, reported the spokesperson of the Telavi Hospital.

In Grozny, employees of public sector institutions reported about being forced to attend a boxing tournament. In Chechnya, the power penetrates deeply into a personal space of people, their families, and personal leisure time, human rights defenders note.

Events to mark 10th anniversary of CTO cancellation in Chechnya; suspending of Chechen-Dagestani border demarcation, – read about these and other events that happened during the week from April 15 to April 21, 2019, in the Caucasus in the review, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On April 20, the "Chechnya Today" News Agency posted a video entitled "Chechen youth addresses pseudo-patriotic bloggers". In the video, four young people express their negative attitude to an indefinite number of bloggers who criticize the authorities of Chechnya, and, in particular, to Tumso Abdurakhmanov. Social network users have found the clip to be a staged one.

Fifteen protesters against the construction of a chain of hydraulic power plants (HPPs) in the Pankisi Gorge were detained. After the intervention of the head of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), they were all released, said Ramazan Bakagashvili, a deputy from the community of Duisi at the sacrebulo (municipal council) of the Akhmeta District.

Samir Kyazymly, an Azerbaijani human rights defender and the coordinator of the Alliance for the Protection of Political Freedoms, has complained to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) that he is constantly unreasonably checked at customs when leaving Azerbaijan and coming back home. On April 19, the ECtHR notified him that his complaint had been registered.

In Volgograd, activists have held solo pickets in support of democratic election in Ukraine and demanding the power changeability in Russia.

On April 14-20, Azerbaijani soldiers fired more than 2200 shots at the positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has stated.

At the election debate on April 19, the incumbent president of Ukraine Pyotr (Petro) Poroshenko reproached his rival, Vladimir Zelensky, of public apology to the head of Chechnya. Ramzan Kadyrov took the side of Zelensky by accusing Poroshenko of inconsistency and recalling that he, after Kadyrov's demand, "had hastily liberated" Russian journalists.

A resident of the village of Medjvriskhevi, located on the border with South Ossetia was kidnapped from his land plot, the office of the state minister of Georgia for reconciliation matters has reported.

The investigators' sixth decision to suspend the inquiry into the torture of Albert Khamkhoev, a resident of Ingushetia, has been cancelled, the Committee against Torture (CaT) has informed. The case has been entrusted to a new investigator, rights defenders have clarified.

On April 19, Akhmed Barakhoev, one of the leaders of the protests in Ingushetia, arrested within the case of calls to unrests, turned 65. On this day, banners were hung out on the Kamenny Bridge in Moscow with congratulations to Barakhoev and an appeal for the resignation of the head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Evkurov.

It is expected that over 1000 foreign visitors will attend the CONIFA Football Cup to be hosted by Nagorno-Karabakh. Over 60 families voiced the desire to host guests of the event.

Over the past 24 hours, the ceasefire in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone and on the border with Armenia was violated 21 times, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reported.

Malsag Uzhakhov, the chairman of the Ingush Council of Teips (family clans), is arrested. The defence decided to appeal against the decision on his arrest.

The accusations to the participants of the conflict in Tbilisi, during which Vitaly Safarov, an employee of the "Centre for Inclusion and Development" was killed, were reclassified to more grave ones. Avtandil Kandelakishvili and Giorgi Sokhadze are now accused of murder based on national discord.

In Abkhazia, potential presidential candidates are not in a hurry to announce their nomination. The incumbent head of state has strong positions, but his victory is not guaranteed; and many voters assess the past five years as years lost for the development of the country, journalists have stated.